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This from a few days ago: Ontario elementary school pulls out of Remembrance Day ceremony.

"By God's Bones: Medieval Swear Words."

h/t

How the Left Spun the Kennedy Myth.

Since this is the day to acknowledge real men and woman, not white poppy weenies, I would like to wish Dorothy a happy birthday.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2500759/Whisky-15-cigarettes-day-secret-good-health-says-Dorothy-celebrates-100th-birthday-glass-favourite-tipple-course.html

Take that all you health nuts.

But...but…wasn't she was the one she was waiting for?

“I was really shocked,” said Colorado Obamacare supporter Cathy Wagner upon receiving her cancellation notice. “All of my hopes were sort of dashed. Oh my gosh, President Obama, this is not what we hoped for, it’s not what we were told.”

Wagner says the same coverage will now cost her and her husband 35% more and that they will have a higher deductible.

“Our premium for next year is going up to over $1,000 a month for two of us and we’re two fairly healthy individuals,” said Wagner..

No more kissing your camel goodnight.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mers-virus-detected-in-saudi-camel-1.2422847

France is thinking of celebrating big next year for Remembrance day but I had to read the following passage twice to believe it :

"Of course it is difficult for Germans, who are now France’s closest European partner, to help commemorate a French military victory, a victory that had dramatic and eventually catastrophic consequences for Germany."

See what revisionist history can do to a nation that doesn't even understand they have handed over their country to Muslims ? Must be nice to live in a dream world.

http://www.france24.com/en/20131109-france-wwi-legacy-commemoration-immigration-germany-turkey

Let us see now.

There is this thing the French call coup d'état, Germans call it putsch, overthrow in English.

Here is what the Wikipedia collected on the subject.

A coup d'état (/ˌkuːdeɪˈtɑː/; plural: coups d'état), also known as a coup, a putsch, or an overthrow, is the sudden deposition of a government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment………to depose the extant government and replace it with another body…….. A coup d'état is considered successful when the usurpers establish their dominance. When the coup neither fails completely nor succeeds, a civil war is a likely consequence.

…….military historian Edward Luttwak states that "[a] coup consists of the infiltration of a small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder."

Now, the circumstances in this case are not national in nature, just local in the town of Annapolis, Maryland. Rather unlikely that there is going to be a civil war over that. Though strange things happen all the time.

“Annapolis Council To Consider Stripping Republican Mayor-Elect’s Power”
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/11/10/annapolis-council-to-consider-stripping-republican-mayor-elects-power/

Democrats (wholly a misnomer) lost the mayoralty race and now are setting up a palace coup.

It seems that Poland no longer teaches history to the young either.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/nov/11/eu-poland-independence-day/

On the subject of Remembrance, here is an oration of Pericles in remembrance of the fallen soldiers.

It is a most eloquent speech.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLa2uZEczgQ

Meanwhile, we have a lot of people not celebrating anything except our destructive immigration policies.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/10/we-will-bleed-you-to-death-british-jihadis-describe-their-aims-for-america-after-syria-fight/

Joe Warmington writes:

TORONTO - There’s a big contrast in how our current mayor and our former mayor chose to honour Remembrance Day.

Nov. 11, 2013.

“Those who did not return are owed a debt that can never ever be repaid,” said Mayor Rob Ford.

Nov. 11, 2010.

“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children,” said Mayor David Miller.

So what speech did you like better?

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/11/11/rob-ford-honours-remembrance-day-better-than-miller

"They also serve who only stand and wait" (originally from Milton) was famously used by Churchill in one of his wartime speeches.
We should not forget those who found themselves in positions to the rear of battle. The trainers, technicians, mechanics, etc., who did the hard, often tiresome jobs that made our soldiers superior to the enemy.

In WWl, American military researchers, on interviewing scores of vets, found that over half of them did not consciously shoot at enemy combatants when required. The training of riflemen was refined before WWll to take this into consideration but was not totally successful.
Teddy Roosevelt formed his famous Rough Riders from Western country wranglers and horsemen for the Cuban campaign in 1898, as this deficit seemed to be known well before the Great War. These volunteers were expert horsemen and good shots before being recruited.

In 1871 Union Army records for the Civil War indicate that its troops fired about 1,000 rifle shots for each Confederate soldier hit, causing General Burnside to lament his recruits: "Out of ten soldiers who are perfect in drill and the manual of arms, only one knows the purpose of the sights on his gun or can hit the broad side of a barn." (from Wikipedia)

General Burnside was the first President of the NRA.

Good Soldiers don't just appear like mushrooms in horse sh*t; they have to be nurtured from youth.

Lest We Forget.

Oh gee Twitter isn't just your latest bad investment its now a Halal stock

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/11/us-twitter-ipo-islamic-idUSBRE9AA0NQ20131111#comments

I always remember, so to honor I always vote.

O's Cairo Speech*. Da.

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"Russia negotiates its biggest arms deal with Egypt since the Cold War after Barack Obama cuts defence aid"

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/11/12/russia-negotiates-its-biggest-arms-deal-with-egypt-since-the-cold-war-after-barack-obama-cuts-defence-aid/

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*Below, the full text of President Obama's speech in Cairo, Egypt, titled "A New Beginning." Watch video:"

Nothing to see here folks, move along. NKorea executes 80 for videos, porno, and Bibles.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/11/12/north-korea-publicly-executes-80-for-crimes-like-watching-films-owning-bible/

Meanwhile, Canada is swooning to the Chosen One because well, they shouldn't have been reading the Bibles or watching stuff.

OP – thanks for that.

And 19 comments! That's good, I guess. I am however, a bit perplexed.

Without trying in any way trying to start a flame war, could you folks please explain to me how the following relate in any way, shape or form to remembering the sacrifice of Canadian soldiers, sailors and airmen?

1. Medieval swear words. EBD – can you please explain?
2. How the Left spun the Kennedy myth. EBD, how about this one?
3. The 100th birthday of a smoking Englishwoman (no mention of veteran status). peterj?
4. Colorado Obamacare? EBD – yours, please?
5. Kissing your camel goodnight, mid island mike?
6. Annapolis, Maryland municipal politics, Lev?
7. Destructive immigration policies. PeterJ?
8. Twitter being a Halal stock. Travis?
9. O's Cairo speech. maz2?
10. Korean executions. johnbrooks?

I would expect a 50+% hijack rate on an NDP website on Remembrance Day. Here? How very, very sad.

Ontario's top court has struck down an idiotic mandatory minimum enacted by the hoplophobes in the federal government.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/11/12/mandatory-minimum-sentence-for-gun-possession-is-unconstitutional-ontario-appeal-court-rules/

Leftist's Nightmare Dystopia's HQ : UNaBomber Strong's UN.

"pervaded by a particular smell, combining tropical humidity, pulverised buildings, spilled petrol, filth, sweat and – most cloyingly of all – decomposing human remains."

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"The UN came to Haiti and left behind a disaster. Let's hope they don't do the same after Typhoon Haiyan"

"In the end, the smell lives on as the strongest memory. Back in January 2010, I was sent to Haiti just after an earthquake had devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince. In the aftermath of this calamity, which claimed as many as 300,000 lives, the ruins of the city were pervaded by a particular smell, combining tropical humidity, pulverised buildings, spilled petrol, filth, sweat and – most cloyingly of all – decomposing human remains.

Today, the scenes in the Philippines must be tragically similar."

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/davidblair/100245657/the-un-came-to-haiti-and-left-behind-a-disaster-lets-hope-they-dont-do-the-same-after-typhoon-haiyan/

A shoutout to Canada's Conservative government: More, please.

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"Fiscal update: Canadian Finance Minister Flaherty projects $3.7B surplus in 2015-16; deficit eliminated faster than budget projected"

"Ottawa: In 2006 81.5% of Canada's exports were to U.S.; down to 74.5% in 2012 as other markets expanded"

http://www.newswatchcanada.ca/

AGW-Neo PR Explained. Formerly Neo-AGW PR.

"The dramatic fall-off in the last couple of decades while CO2 climbed like a homesick angel – priceless!"

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" Theo Goodwin says:
November 12, 2013 at 12:25 pm

Can we talk about the weather we are experiencing today, here in the USA? This is the earliest severe cold snap that I have experienced. Here in SW Virginia, we are dropping about 20 degrees in about 6 to 8 hours. I have seen this sort of thing in St. Louis, but rarely earlier than Thanksgiving. And the cold snap seems to cover most of the US. Amazing."

" brians356 says:
November 12, 2013 at 12:44 pm

Tonyb,

That Met Office CET graph is particularly troublesome for warmistas. The dramatic fall-off in the last couple of decades while CO2 climbed like a homesick angel – priceless!"

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/11/12/uah-october-temperatures-part-2/#comments

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"56% Of The US Below Normal Temperature In 2013"

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/56-of-the-us-below-normal-temperature-in-2013/

UNaBomber's UN AGW Death Fraud.

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"It's time to stop this madness," said Yeb Sano, the lead Filipino delegate, fighting tears over the death toll of an estimated 10,000 from the typhoon catastrophe,..."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/studies-point-to-causes-other-than-climate-change-of-haiyan-typhoon-a-933226.html

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"Philippine President puts typhoon death toll at 2000 to 2500"

"The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan's rampage through the Philippines is closer to 2,000 or 2,500 than the 10,000 previously estimated, President Benigno Aquino said on Tuesday as U.S." (G-M)

Not celebrating Remembrance Day in the schools but still taking the day off, right? Here in BC they added a pro-D day onto the weekend so everyone could have a 4 day holiday. As these people go about their rip off of society they should be forced to watch actual uncensored footage of what Canadian troops endured for their freedom.